If you are in a car and deliberately driving into a protest, you are the problem.

Unless said driver drove into the damn protest.

No worries, and your point was valid - just not what the story was about.

Impressive!

You would be surprised how easy it is to convince a business owner who knows nothing about technology beyond how to turn their phone and laptop on and off to allow you to help them spec a solution for their business.

Grew up on Long Island, where everyone around me was of Irish, Italian or German descent and zero POC. They were all raised racist as all hell, as was I. Some got away and figured it out, but many of them are still there and still explicitly racist as hell. They sound just like their ‘off the boat’ grandparents. Have…

I think the correct question for this thing is, what is a worthy price to buy it so you could undouche it back to a decent truck worth owning? What is the breakeven price to rescue this poor, abused creature?

My approach to NOOCP is, would I actually buy it for the asking price.

You should re-read your post.

So it was an anonymous letter?

I am well aware of that. I have no problem with Muslims who choose to wear the Burkha, not am I going to support people who deliberately provoke Muslims by behaving badly.

What is scarier is those who voted for Obama and then for Trump. I know two of them. Interacting with them is like peering into the void - there is no ‘they’ there, they are a knot of emotive, howling word salad who cannot reason or explain anything. When I was on speaking terms with them for a few brief weeks after…

“Small Soldiers” exactly! I knew there was a movie like that but could not recall the name - that was the inspiration. Thank you for the reminder!

The issue with McSally was that female US servicemembers in Saudi Arabia were being forced to wear garb that conformed with the host country standards - which some would call courtesy, but which I call horseshit in cases where the servicemember is not visiting as a tourist but as a requirement for their job.

Yep. In a properly structured governance framework, you could take a DNA test but your insurance company could not use it to inflate *your* premiums specifically, but they could use it *along with everyone elses* to do the risk calculations required to determine what rates are appropriate for the *entire population*…

Absolutely! Thats why I want a legal requirement with penalties set high to disincentivise violations.

Sorry, to clarify, they should be required to disclose that. Current state is too opaque. That is a change I believe needs to be made.

Ah, ok.

No, but they have to disclose their methods for pricing including data AND cannot buy data on policy holders from designated third parties.

What was that nonsense about the Burkha at the Pentagon?